Frankfurt American High School - Focus Yearbook (Frankfurt, Germany)

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ammezciozf Depcnlmewt The head of the business education department is Mr. Lowell Kraft. Typewriting skill is offered to tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades. The primary aim is to build useable skill in typewriting. Typewriting H stresses increased skill in operation to meet the high standards required for jobs. The theory ofGregg Shorthand is learned duringthe first year of shorthand, In Shorthand II the vocational skills aimed for are taking dictation between 100 and 120 words a minute and producing mailable letters. Bookkeeping is designed to familiarize and give practice to the student in the complete double-entry bookkeeping cycle. Office Procedures includes letter- writing, filing, using office machines, and typing business forms. Some students work in school offices for on the job experience with machines,shorthand, and typing. General Business is an introductory course in basic business offered primarily to sophomores. It deals with the economic concepts of everyday business activities as banking, buying, credit, insurance, invest- ments, communications, and personal records. One of the many typing classes, ftop rightl of F.H.S. is con- centrating on which finger goes where in order to complete their assignments which a minimum of errors. Alrita Laverentz fsec- ond rightl appears to be intent on the work at hand and is perhaps visualizing a future in the bus- iness world. Phil Steele, Myrna Estrada and Marion Evanoski fthird rightj gain skill at manip- ulating adding machines. Phil is relaxed now, but if it were a real business office of the future instead of a classroom . . . Mr. Yandoh Cfourth rightj demonstrates to his students the method of balancing accounts. All businesses can certainly use able, young accountants - so listen closely! Jane Kadlec fbot- tom rightj assists Mrs. Waid in the Business Office by lightening the ever-present office load.Jane is getting valuable experience in office work as early as possible. One of her variousjobs is running the mimeograph machine --today it's announcements for Mr. Schoferg tomorrow it's something else, but it is allpart of preparing for the business world.

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